fill one's boots

verb

To eat heartily.

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Meanings

verbfill one's boots (third-person singular simple present fills one's boots, present participle filling one's boots, simple past and past participle filled one's boots)

present singular third person fills one's boots · participle present filling one's boots · participle past filled one's boots · past filled one's boots

  1. informalTo eat heartily.

    Famine might come back, so fill your boots.

    2012, Aubrey Malone, The Mammoth Book of Irish Humour
  2. idiomaticTo perform at a high level in one's official role.

    Rashford added insult to injury as he drilled through the legs of Ward, with England firmly in the mood to fill their boots against a ragged Wales.

    2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline
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